Holdsworth "H.1" glider damaged at Baildon Moor.
On Sunday, 24th April 1932 the Bradford Gliding Club held a flying meeting at their flying site near Dobrudden Farm, on Baildon Moor. Their Dickson and Reynard gliders were used and a home-built glider was brought by the owner Harold Holdsworth. This Holdsworth glider was flown but stalled while flying at around 150 feet above the ground and went into a dive. The pilot managed to pull out of the dive at an estimated speed of around sixty miles per hour and regained level flight some ten feet above the ground. It then skimmed the grass for around 200 yards before landing heavily and damaging the skid, it tipped onto it's nose and received some damage. The pilot / owner later dismantled the glider and took it back to his workshop to be modified. This glider would have been the Holdsworth H.1 glider. The Bradford Gliding club were one of a number of small clubs that existed in the early 1930s across the West Riding of Yorkshire, some later amalgamated when member numbers dwindled after the early surge in interest.
Pilot - Mr Harold Holdsworth.